Tools for the people doing the work.
Find current clinical guidance and practical tools to assess, recommend, administer, document, communicate about, and refer for vaccination.
What do you need to do?
Start with the task in front of you. Each section below links directly to current clinical, operational, Pennsylvania, or local tools.
Check current recommendations
Schedules and professional guidance by population.
Go to guidance →Screen a patient
Contraindications, precautions, and clinical screening tools.
Go to screening →Give a vaccine
Administration, preparation, and clinical practice resources.
Go to administration →Find a VIS
Current Vaccine Information Statements and translations.
Go to VIS resources →Answer a patient’s question
Evidence-based safety information and communication tools.
Go to patient questions →Store & handle vaccines
Temperature, storage, handling, and emergency guidance.
Go to storage tools →Build a better workflow
Standing orders, practice standards, and implementation tools.
Go to workflow tools →Use Pennsylvania systems
PIERS, Vaccines for Children, and state provider resources.
Go to PA systems →Refer a patient locally
Allegheny County vaccine access and local referral options.
Go to local resources →Professional resource library
Use these sources for current clinical and operational information. ACIC links to the organizations responsible for maintaining the guidance.
Check current recommendations
Professional guidance for pediatric care, family medicine, pregnancy, infectious disease, and immunization practice.
Screen a patient
Use current clinical resources to review contraindications, precautions, age, health conditions, and other factors that may affect vaccination.
Give a vaccine
Clinical resources for vaccine preparation, administration, route, site, technique, and related practice questions.
Find a current VIS
Vaccine Information Statements provide vaccine information patients need before vaccination. Use the current version.
Answer a patient’s question
Questions about safety, side effects, ingredients, evidence, or changing guidance deserve clear answers and credible sources.
Store & handle vaccines
Protect vaccine integrity with current storage, temperature monitoring, handling, and emergency guidance.
Build a better vaccine workflow
Strong immunization practice depends on systems that assess, recommend, administer or refer, document, and follow up.
Use Pennsylvania systems
Provider resources for registry participation, Vaccines for Children, and Pennsylvania immunization program operations.
Refer a patient locally
If your practice cannot provide a needed vaccine, help the patient identify a local vaccination option.
How ACIC chooses professional resources
ACIC prioritizes sources grounded in peer-reviewed science, transparent evidence review, credible medical expertise, and relevant public health authority.
We use the source that best fits the clinical or operational question rather than relying on one organization for every topic.
Read ACIC’s Clinical Source Standard →
This page is a professional resource hub. It does not replace individualized medical advice, clinical judgment, product labeling, or applicable law and regulation. Verify current guidance before applying it in practice.